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Mao Dazhuang's room was still the same as when he died.

No one was cleaning, but there was a lot of dust in the room.

Xu Shan stood at the door and watched for a while. He first memorized the general situation in the room, and then saw that there seemed to be no other people's footprints on the dust, and then walked in.

There were no fresh footprints, which meant that no one had been in the house recently.

Generally speaking, if there are some belongings of the murderer left at the crime scene, the murderer will sometimes come back to retrieve them, or come back to destroy the scene.

However, this does not mean that the murderer has not returned to the scene, but it only means that he came earlier and more timely.

Xu Shan asked Xiang Jinsong and Zhu Jiandu to wait outside the house, then walked into the house and walked around.

This is a single dormitory in the factory area, but in such a large room, only Zhu Jian lives alone.

There were no witnesses when he died. The forensic doctor who came to investigate the case could only judge based on the circumstances of Zhu Jian's death that he committed suicide with a shoelace.The specific method of death was also very strange. He tied the shoelace to the bedside and slid down against the bedside, thus hanging himself.

Not to mention that hanging is a very difficult way, hanging yourself by this unconventional method is even more difficult.

But Mao Dazhuang actually hanged himself to death. It's no wonder that rumors spread in the factory.

There are two iron bookcases in Mao Dazhuang's dormitory. There are many books in these bookcases. In addition to many electronic books, there are also novels. Mao Dazhuang has a good reading habit and knows how to use bookmarks.

This made Xu Shan clearly see that the last novel he read before his death was "The Legend of Liancheng", and it seemed that he had just started reading this novel, with the bookmark placed on the first few pages.

Picking up the bookmark, Xu Shan found a line of small words written in pen on the bookmark: Huanjun Mingzhu sheds tears.

The small characters are very gracefully written, but they don't look like they were written by a man.

Xu Shan found Mao Dazhuang's handwriting and compared it. Sure enough, it was not the case. Obviously, this bookmark should have been given to Mao Dazhuang by someone else.Of course, it is possible that the bookmark was brought along with the book, but the problem is that the book seems to come from the library of the Red Star Factory.

In the past, state-owned factories had poor welfare benefits and poor infrastructure. Almost every factory had a library with a large collection of books.

So although there was no Internet, no mobile phones, and no games, people's spiritual life at that time was much richer than in later generations when everyone had only one mobile phone and they were just heads-down people.

After searching around the house, Xu Shan found no clues, so he could only go to the library to ask about the situation with this book of Liancheng Jue.

The librarian is a pretty, clean, and gentle girl named Lan Qingping.

It turned out that she was a female worker in the factory workshop and the first person to encounter the ghost. Later, because of the deaths of Mao Dazhuang and Chen Xiaocui, the factory was worried that something would happen to her again, so they transferred her to this library.

After hearing Xu Shan say that she wanted to find out who had borrowed the book Liancheng Jue, she dug out the borrowing record. After rummaging around hurriedly, she finally found the borrowing record of the book Liancheng Jue. The exact words written at the bottom were It's Mao Dazhuang, and the borrowing time was the day before Mao Dazhuang's death, which was August 8th.

It turns out that Mao Dazhuang borrowed this book himself, so the bookmark should have been included with the novel?

Xu Shan was a little disappointed. He thought he could catch some important clues, but now it seems it was just a coincidence.

Just as he was about to leave, he glanced at the borrowing record again.You don't know it by looking at it, but you are shocked when you look at it.

Because Lan Qingping was new to work, his handwriting was completely different from that of the previous librarian, and the last borrowing record was completely different from the handwriting on the previous borrowing record.

The first words are all written in a crooked way, obviously because of the low level of education. It is estimated that some related household was arranged to enter such a leisurely place to enjoy happiness, but the last record, the words on it are very graceful, and It looked like he had been practicing.

This is very similar to the words on the bookmark, and it should be written by the same person.

This is very strange, a bit trying to hide something.

Xu Shan remained calm and asked Lan Qingping, "Can I borrow some books from you to read?"

Lan Qingping was a very principled person and refused on the spot: "No, you are not from our factory and you cannot use our library."

Zhu Jian, who came with Xu Shan, lost his composure on the spot: "Xiaolan, what did you say? This is our distinguished guest."

"Chief Zhu, I don't want to offend our distinguished guest, but you can't make my job difficult."

When Xu Shan saw it, he quickly smoothed things over and said, "Forget it, I'm just a little bored and want to find a few books to read to kill some time. What she said is right, we don't need to embarrass others."

Zhu Jian was still very dissatisfied, but at this time Xiang Jinsong made a suggestion: "Shanzi, if you really want to read a book, you can ask Chief Zhu to borrow a few books for you."

Zhu Jian slapped his forehead: "Yeah, look at my brain, I'd better ask the manager if you have enough brains. Comrade Xu, if you want to read any book, I can borrow it with my library card."

Xu Shan thought for a while: "Then let's renew the book Liancheng Jue. I'm sorry to bother Chief Zhu."

Zhu Jian registered the borrowing information with Lan Qingping, took the book, and handed it to Xu Shan.

Xu Shan did not answer, but came to Lan Qingping: "Comrade Lan, I noticed something just now. Could you please come with us to the Security Department?"

Lan Qingping was surprised, while Zhu Jian and Xiang Jinsong were even more surprised. They couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Xushan's gourd.

Xu Shan just repeated: "Comrade Lan, I hope you will cooperate with our work."

Lan Qingping sighed, seemingly giving up the idea of ​​​​escape or resistance, and obediently followed Xu Shan and the other three to the Security Department of the Red Star Factory.

In the past security section, there were places like detention rooms and separate rooms similar to interrogation rooms. Xu Shan and Lan Qingping entered the interrogation room and asked Lan Qingping to sit down. Xu Shan got straight to the point: "Comrade Lan, Your pen calligraphy is really good, what inscription did you practice according to?"

Lan Qingping looked at Xu Shan in astonishment: "You called me to the security department just to ask me this?"

"Of course not. What I want to ask is, for what purpose did you want to kill Mao Dazhuang? And for what purpose did you want to manipulate the borrowing records and deliberately falsify Mao Dazhuang's borrowing records?"